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Assembly: Macedonia has a unicameral Assembly (Sobranie) with 123 seats

Description of electoral system:

In the Assembly (Sobranie), 120 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms and 3 members are reserved for the diaspora community to serve 4-year terms.[1]

Election Note:

Although parliamentary elections were not due until 2015, the Albanian junior coalition partner Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) refused to support the ruling VMRO-DPMNE’s candidate for President, incumbent Gjorge IVANOV, and the government was dissolved. The last parliamentary election was held on June 5, 2011. The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity (VMRO-DPMNE) received 438,138 votes (38.98%) and won 56 seats, the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM) received 368,496 votes (32.78%) and won 42 seats, and the Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) received 115,092 votes (10.24%) and won 15 seats. Although the VMRO-DPMNE lost 7 seats and the SDSM gained 18, the VMRO-DPMNE still won a plurality of seats and was able to form a new government. Nikola GRUEVSKI remained Prime Minister.

[1] The country is divided in 6 electoral districts, with a district magnitude of 20 members. No legal threshold is required for a party to enter the parliament. Votes are tabulated using the D'Hondt formula. At least 30 percent of the candidates on each party list must be of different gender. 3 seats are reserved for the Macedonian diaspora.